The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. —Lawrence Durrell More about this quote Tags: love time Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: universe fairness wickedness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. —Richard Feynman More about this quote Tags: humanity future responsibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. —Sydney J. Harris More about this quote Tags: future cynicism past Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. —Laurens Van der Post More about this quote Tags: certainty doubt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? —Eleanor Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: conscience suffering misery revenge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. —Robert M. Pirsig More about this quote Tags: progress change heart head hands improve Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I suppose that even the most pleasurable of imaginable occupations, that of batting baseballs through the windows of the RCA Building, would pall a little as the days ran on. —James Thurber More about this quote Tags: pleasure dullness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. —Alan Paton More about this quote Tags: freedom progress democracy surrender Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied, or reoccupied, by our real problems — the problems of life and of human relations. —John Maynard Keynes More about this quote Tags: heart economics head Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is. —Jean Anouilh More about this quote Tags: power wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production. —Herbert Marcuse More about this quote Tags: love capitalism Marxism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The equality of the capitalist and the laborer is the same as the equality of two fighters, when the hands of one are bound, while a gun is put into the hands of the other, and equal conditions are strictly observed for both in the fight. —Leo Tolstoy More about this quote Tags: equality capitalism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships —W. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk More about this quote Tags: money poverty wealth race Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. —Freda Adler More about this quote Tags: power ethics crime Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email